“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films a...” — Karel Reisz Quote

“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.”

“There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.”

“The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.”

“I've come a long way from my first commercials.”

“I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.”

“I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.”